Konsumsi Makanan Jadi Rumah Tangga Pedesaan Jawa Barat

The importance of food away from home or prepared food in dietary habit of Indonesian households is increasing. In urban areas, the proportion of food expenditures on prepared food in 1980 and 1984 were 11.0% and 14.6%> while in rural region those figures were 4.8% and 7.8%, respectiveiy. Objective of this paper is to anaiyze some socio-economic and demographic factors which affect allocation of household's expenditures on prepared food. Nine villages with ricebase economy in rural West Jawa were selected as Analytical region, and 451 households in those villages were choosen as samples in 1985/86. The main Research conclusion is variables such as land holding size, the balita's (chiidren under five years of age) presence in thehousehold have positive effects on the amount of hosehold expenditures on prepared food; and education of housewife negatively affects this expenditures. Household live in villages with better irrigation facilities and more acsess to center of economic activities in the region spent more on prepared food. More understanding on these issues will help us in solvingfood problems in general